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Dear colleagues on LIS-E-RESOURCES, Read online: http://www.hifa.org/news/join-hifa-major-thematic-discussion-library-and-information-services-emergencies-disasters-and Tsunamis, earthquakes; terrorism; conflict; biological, chemical or nuclear warfare; disease outbreaks, global pandemics, antimicrobial resistance... The health impact of national and global emergencies depends largely on the degree to which individuals, communities, nations and supranational bodies are adequately informed. To what extent are current Library and Information Services (LIS) meeting the information needs of different user groups in different contexts? Where are the gaps and what are the priorities for future action? We invite everyone with an interest in global health, disasters, disease outbreaks and humanitarian response to join us to explore these and other questions in a major thematic discussion on HIFA, starting 17 July and continuing to 18 August 2017. We are grateful to Caroline De Brún of Public Health England, who has carried out a preliminary PHE/HIFA Evidence Briefing around the question: What is the evidence around knowledge and library service provision and knowledge management to support global health, and disaster and emergency preparedness? Our thanks to Public Health England, Evidence Aid and HIFA LIS Project members for their financial and technical support for this new HIFA Library and Information Services project. ABOUT HIFA HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) is a growing global health movement working in collaboration with WHO Geneva and more than 300 other health and development organisations worldwide. HIFA has more than 16,000 members (health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers, policymakers and others) committed to the progressive realisation of a world where every person has access to the information they need to protect their own health and the health of others. HIFA members have experience and knowledge which they can use to bring clarity to challenging questions around global health issues in general and healthcare information issues in particular - including for example public health communication during health emergencies. We have more than 5000 members in Africa, 5000 in Europe, and 6000 in the rest of the world, across 176 countries. We interact on five forums in three languages (English, French, and Portuguese). We are launching HIFA in Spanish later this year in collaboration with WHO, PAHO and the Andalucian School of Public Health. The website is www.hifa.org and membership is free: www.hifa.org/joinhifa Join HIFA! www.hifa.org/joinhifa Best wishes, Neil Coordinator, HIFA Project on Library and Information Services (with special focus on Population Health, Disasters, and Disease Outbreaks) http://www.hifa.org/projects/library-and-information-services Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare information - Join HIFA: www.hifa.org HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the HIFA campaign (Healthcare Information For All - www.hifa.org ) and current chair of the Dgroups Foundation (www.dgroups.info), which supports 700 communities of practice for international development, social justice and global health. Twitter: @hifa_org FB: facebook.com/HIFAdotORG [log in to unmask] lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKSG